Austria 2019

This article lists events in Austria in 2019 .

General

0January 7th: The chemist Nuno Maulide is named Austrian Scientist of the Year 2018 by the Club of Education and Science Journalists .

February 28: 63rd Vienna Opera Ball

March 14-23 : Nextcomic Festival Linz

March 30th: Opening of the Lower Austrian State Exhibition 2019

0April 9th: Austrian Country Overshoot Day

0May 8th: The festival of joy takes place for the seventh time on Heldenplatz in Vienna .

New State Gallery of Lower Austria

May 24th: 15th Long Night of Churches
25./26. May: Opening of the new Lower Austria State Gallery in Krems an der Donau
May 28: Austrian World Summit of the R20 Regions of Climate Action in the Vienna Hofburg and Climate Kirtag at Heldenplatz with Greta Thunberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger
0June 8th: 26th Life Ball
June 13th to 15th: European Forum Wachau
June 15: 24th Rainbow Parade
June 17: The historian Philipp Ther and the microbiologist Michael Wagner are awarded the Wittgenstein Prize , each worth 1.5 million euros .
June 26th to 30th: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2019 in Klagenfurt
August 14th to 30th: European Forum Alpbach

Vienna Classic Days

23rd and 24th August: Vienna Classic Days
September: The daily newspaper Die Presse publishes a list of the most influential economists of the year for the sixth time .
0September 6th and 7th: AirPower flight show in Zeltweg

The art project For Forest

0September 8: The art project For Forest by the installation artist Klaus Littmann is opened to the public in Klagenfurt's Wörthersee Stadium

September 14th and 15th: Open House in Vienna

September 16-20: Euroskills European Professional Championships in Graz

September 19 to October 13: Festival for contemporary art Styrian Autumn

September 25-29: Philosophicum Lech

September 26th to October 13th: Wiener Wiesn Festival

September 29: Monument Day 2019

October 5th: Long Night of the Museums

October 23: Presentation of the Austrian of the Year 2019 award

October 25th: Presentation of the Big Brother Awards in Vienna's Rabenhof Theater

October 26th: The most beautiful place in Austria is determined for the 6th time within the scope of 9 Places - 9 Treasures

November 4: Awarding of the Austrian Book Prize 2019

ORF stage at Buch Wien 19

November 6-10: Book Vienna
December: Announcement of the Austrian word for the year 2019

Austrian Google search terms of the year 2019

Search terms of the year: 1. Strache , 3. Dominic Thiem , 4. EU election results , 7. National Council election , 10. Kurz
Exciters & fates Austria: 1. Ibiza Video , 2. Florian Janny , 3. Motion of no confidence , 4. Lisa Alm, 5. Identitarians , 6. Learning victory, 7. Johannes Dürr , 8. HTL Ottakring , 9. Donauzentrum Brand, 10. Original Play

politics

February 28: The governor of Burgenland, Hans Niessl, hands over his office to Hans Peter Doskozil after more than 18 years , election and inauguration of the provincial government Doskozil I
May 18: In the course of the " Ibiza Affair ", Heinz-Christian Strache announces his resignation as Vice Chancellor and FPÖ party chairman, Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces an early election to the National Council .
May 19: After the Ibiza affair became known, the Burgenland Governor Hans Peter Doskozil announced an early state election on January 16, 2020 .
May 22: With the dismissal of Herbert Kickl takes place, the first ministerial dismissal by the President of the Second Republic. Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache , Ministers Norbert Hofer , Beate Hartinger-Klein and Mario Kunasek as well as State Secretary Hubert Fuchs are removed from their offices at their own request. The vacant ministerial posts in the Federal Government Kurz I will be filled by Valerie Hackl , Johann Luif , Walter Pöltner and Eckart Ratz , with Hartwig Löger becoming Vice Chancellor .
May 27: In the National Council , the 186th motion of no confidence since 1945 is the first successful vote of no confidence in a federal government.
May 28: The members of the Federal Government Kurz I are removed from their offices by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen . Until the formation of a new federal government, Hartwig Löger will be entrusted with the continuation of the administration of the Federal Chancellery and with the chairmanship of the provisional federal government and the members of the outgoing federal government with the continuation of the administration.

The Federal Government of Bierlein at the inauguration on June 3, 2019

June 3: Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen praises the federal government Bierlein , which is replacing the provisional federal government Löger . For the first time, with Brigitte Bierlein, a woman is sworn in as Austrian Chancellor , and for the first time there are as many women as men in an Austrian federal government.

3rd and 4th June: Meeting of the heads of state of the German-speaking countries in Linz

JULY 1: Bernhard Achitz (SPO), Werner Amon (ÖVP) and Walter Rosenkranz (FPÖ) are by President der Bellen Alexander Van as Ombudsmen sworn in .

July 20: The shredder affair becomes known

August 13: The casino affair becomes known

October 23: After the National Council election , the constituent session of the XXVII. Legislative period

November 6th: Constituent meeting of the Vorarlberg state parliament of the XXXI. Legislative period and election and inauguration of the Wallner III state government

December 12th: Three members of the Vienna Landtag resigned from the FPÖ and founded the parliamentary group Die Allianz für Österreich (DAÖ) .

December 17th: Constituent session of the Landtag of Styria of the XVIII. Legislative period and election and inauguration of the state government Schützenhöfer II

Publication of the final report of the FPÖ Historians' Commission by Christian Hafenecker , Andreas Mölzer and the historian Thomas Grischany

December 23: Presentation of the final report of the FPÖ's historians' commission

Election dates

28 January to 10 April: Chamber of Labor elections, date depending on the federal state

March 10: Municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg 2019 (last election 2014 )

May 26: European elections in Austria 2019

May 27-29 : ÖH elections

September 29: National Council election in Austria 2019

October 13: State election in Vorarlberg 2019

November 24, 2019: State election in Styria 2019

Sports

December 2018 / January: Four Hills Tournament 2018/19

21st to 27th January: 79th Hahnenkamm race

0February 1st to 3rd: Austrian Badminton Championship 2019

February 20 to March 3: Nordic World Ski Championships 2019 in Seefeld in Tyrol

April 22nd to 26th: Tour of the Alps 2019

0April 7th: Vienna City Marathon

03rd to 5th May: Austrian Darts Open 2019

May 17th to 19th: Salzburg Marathon

May 26th: Austrian Women's Run and Ironman 70.3 Austria

May 30th to June 2nd: ErzbergRodeo

June 21-30: Austria at the European Games in Minsk

June 28th to 30th: 2019 Austrian Grand Prix

0July 7th: Ironman Austria

07th to 13th July: World Gymnaestrada 2019 in Dornbirn

0July 6th to 12th: Tour of Austria 2019

July 27th to August 3rd: Generali Open 2019 / Generali Open 2019 / Qualification

August 25th to September 1st: 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim
August 11: Motorcycle World Championship 2019 - Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring
August 17: At the 2019 Fistball World Cup , Austria's national fistball team wins the silver medal
August 25: Trans Vorarlberg Triathlon
August 27 to September 1: W 25 Vienna ITF World Tennis Tour 2019
August 30th to September 1st: Austria Triathlon and Austrian Darts Championship 2019
September 10th to 15th: Madainitennis Open 2019 in St. Pölten
September 13th to 15th: IFA Fistball World Tour Finals 2019 in Salzburg
27 September to 6 October: Austria at the 2019 World Athletics Championships
0October 6th to 13th: Upper Austria Ladies Linz 2019 / Qualification and Upper Austria Ladies Linz 2019
October: Klagenfurt Open 2019
October 19-27: Erste Bank Open 2019 / Qualification and Erste Bank Open 2019

The athletes of the year 2019

October 31: Presentation of the 2019 Athlete of the Year award
November 7th to 15th: Austria at the 2019 World Athletics Championships for the disabled
November 12th to 17th: Austrian Open 2019 (table tennis)
December to January 2020: Four Hills Tournament 2019/20

Championships, cups and leagues

Austrian championships in cross-country skiing 2019

Austrian Hockey Bundesliga (field, men) 2018/19 and 2019/20

Austrian Alpine Ski Championships 2019

Austrian handball championship (women) 2018/19 and 2019/20

Alps Hockey League 2018/19

Women's ice hockey Bundesliga 2018/19 and 2019/20

Admiral Basketball Bundesliga 2018/19

Floorball Bundesliga Austria 2018/19 and 2019/20

Austrian Volleyball Championship 2018/19 (men) and 2019/20

Austrian Volleyball Championship 2018/19 (women) and 2019/20

Austrian Volleyball Cup 2018/19 (men) and 2019/20

Austrian Volleyball Cup 2018/19 (women) and 2019/20

Music, theater, stage

Summer night concert

0January 1: New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic 2019

February 12: Protest song contest

April 25: Amadeus Awards 2019

May 10th: Opening of the Wiener Festwochen

June 20: Summer night concert by the Vienna Philharmonic

June 13-16 : Nova Rock Festival

June 21-23 : Danube Island Festival

23 June: Awarding of the Austrian Music Theater Prize 2019 / Austrian Music Theater Prize

June 27-30 : Woodstock's brass band

July 5th and 6th: 40th Austrian Brass Music Festival in Vienna

July 4th to 28th: Tyrolean Festival Erl

July 11th to August 24th: Mörbisch Lake Festival

July 16 to August 27: Innsbruck Festival of Early Music

July 20 to August 31: Salzburg Festival

July 17 to August 18: Bregenz Festival

July 25th to 28th: Popfest in Vienna

August 15 to 17: FM4 Frequency Festival

August 16 to September 8: Grafenegg Festival

September 13th to 15th: Folk culture festival in Aufsteirern

September 26th to 28th: Waves Vienna 2019

October 25th: National Day concert

November 24th: Awarding of the Nestroy Theater Prize 2019 / Nestroy Theater Prize

List of number one hits in Austria (2019)

Film, television and radio

Winner of the Austrian Film Prize 2019

19 January: The Austrian productions Joy , Kaviar and Nevrland are awarded at the Max Ophüls Prize film festival .

January 30th: Presentation of the Austrian Film Prize 2019 in the Vienna City Hall

February 28 to March 7: Women's Film Days

March 13-17 : Tricky Women International Animation Film Festival

March 19 to 24: Diagonale film festival in Graz

April 13: Romy Awards 2019

April 25th to 30th: Crossing Europe film festival in Linz

May 28th to June 2nd: Vienna Shorts

June 29th to September 1st: Film Festival on Vienna's Rathausplatz

August 6-10 : Alpinals

October 24th to November 6th: Viennale

Theatrical releases of Austrian productions

date	Movie title
January 11th	Cold feet
January 18th	Joy
February 1st	Love machine
February 22	Winter in Havana
1st March	How I learned to be a child of myself
7th March	The Big Jump
March 22	The ground under your feet
17th of May	earth
April 5th	The children of the dead
June 13th	caviar
14th June	To the night
13.september	Nevrland
4th of October	chaos
4th of October	Nobadi
October 17th	I have never been to New York
November 1st	Little Joe - happiness is a business
November 29th	The diver
6th of December	Gipsy Queen
20th of December	Lucky

Memorial days

Commemoration event for 30 years of the fall of the Iron Curtain with Alexander Schallenberg , Péter Szijjártó and Hans Peter Doskozil on June 27, 2019

Commemoration ceremony for 30 years of the fall of the Iron Curtain on November 29, 2019

08 January: 100th anniversary of the death of the writer Peter Altenberg

January 12: 500th anniversary of the death of Maximilian I (HRR)

January 23rd: 100 years ago the marine researcher Hans Hass was born

February 12: 30th anniversary of the death of the writer Thomas Bernhard

February 16: 100 years ago, the first free and equal election in the history of Austria took place with the election of the constituent national assembly , women were allowed to vote for the first time

February 23: The Galtür avalanche disaster struck 20 years ago

March 23: 100 years ago Karl I left Austria with his family and went into exile in Switzerland. In the Feldkirch Manifesto, before crossing the border, he revoked his waiver of government business, which was the reason for the Habsburg law

0April 3rd: 100 years ago the Nobility Repeal Act was passed

April 18th: The composer Franz von Suppè was born 200 years ago

0May 5th: Day of Remembrance against violence and racism in memory of the victims of National Socialism

May 25: 150 years ago the Vienna State Opera opened with a premiere of Don Giovanni by Mozart

May 29: 20 years ago, a fire broke out in the Tauern tunnel , killing twelve people and injuring another 42.

June 12: 25 years ago, is the referendum in Austria on accession to the European Union held

June 24th: 50th anniversary of the death of the actor Oskar Sima

June 27: Commemoration ceremony for 30 years of the fall of the Iron Curtain

July 16: 350 years ago, 220 people died in a rock fall from Mönchsberg in Salzburg . Since then, mountain cleaners have carried out regular inspections of the rock faces.

August 30: 40 years ago, a fire broke out in the main building of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank

0September 6th: The writer Felix Salten was born 150 years ago

0September 8th: 100 years ago the artist Maria Lassnig was born

0October 4th: The first Austrian Spar-Casse is founded 200 years ago

October 15: 350 years of the University of Innsbruck

October 21: 100 years ago the “National Council for German Austria ” decided on the new state name “Republic of Austria” based on the peace treaty of Saint Germain .

December 2: The gas explosion in Wilhelmsburg occurred 20 years ago in 1999 . Ten people died in the collapse of a three-story building.

December 10th: The March of Freedom takes place 30 years ago

December 12th: The actor Fritz Muliar was born 100 years ago

Selection of known deceased

January

0January 1st: Karl Foitek , automobile racing driver and entrepreneur
0January 2nd: Elisabeth Wäger-Häusle , writer and dramaturge
0January 3: Alfred Kyrer , economist
0January 4th: Robert Kauer , politician (ÖVP), member of the state parliament
0January 5th: Manfred Hohn , writer
05th January: Karl Heinz Ritschel , journalist and publicist, editor-in-chief of the Salzburger Nachrichten
0January 8th: Erika Schubert , opera singer
January 10: Ludwig Scharinger , bank manager
January 14th: Nomi Meron , survivor of the Nazi regime, music teacher and contemporary witness
January 26th: Wilma Lipp , opera singer
January 27: Kurt Buchinger , politician

February

0February 3: Hans Kienesberger , artist
0February 5th: Hans Haid , folklorist
0February 8: Kurt Girk , folk music singer
0February 8: Werner Haslauer , politician
February 12: Géza Hajós , art and garden historian
February 13: Hans Stadlmair , conductor and composer
February 16: Otto Strobl , composer, conductor and organist
February 16: Michael Killisch-Horn , politician
February 19: Georg Haber , communications engineer and museum director
February 21: Hilde Zadek , opera singer
February 21: Maria Magdalena Koller , film director and screenwriter
February 22nd: Otto Wansch , religious and philosopher
February 26: Franz Haslehner , politician

March

0March 2nd: Werner Schneyder , cabaret artist
0March 3: Horst Haselsteiner , historian
0March 5: Ernst Exner , musicologist and radio journalist
0March 3rd: Milan Linzer , politician
0March 6: Christine Schirmer , politician
0March 8: Michael Gielen , conductor and composer
0March 9: Elizabeth T. Spira , television editor
March 10: Josef Feistmantl , luge rider
March 12: Gabriela Moser , politician
March 12th: Hermann Mucke , astronomer
March 12th: Herwig Strobl , musician and author
March 14th: Hans Grötzer , violinist
March 15: Gerhard Skiba , politician
March 16: Johann Maier , Judaist
March 27: Friedrich Achleitner , writer and architecture critic

April

0April 1st: Hugo Schwendenwein , canon lawyer
0April 3: Barbara Wolfgang-Krenn , politician
0April 4th: Baldur Pauß , composer and musician
April 10: Balduin Sulzer , composer
April 14: Peter Ruckenbauer , agricultural scientist
April 16: Hansjörg Auer , mountaineer
April 16: David Lama , sport climber and alpinist
April 16: Jörg Demus , pianist and composer
April 26: Eberhard Vollnhofer , Provost
April 27th: Manfred Müller , screenwriter and puppeteer
April 30th: Erika Strasser , javelin thrower, President of the Austrian Athletics Association

May

0May 1st: Lukas Essl , politician
0May 1st: Christian Pongruber , politician
0May 4th: Robert Essl , photographer
0May 4th: Rudolf Freinberger , politician
0May 6: Gerald Mader , politician
0May 7th: Fritz Novotny , musician
0May 7th: Wolfgang Rümmele , politician
May 10: Ingrid Nargang , lawyer and contemporary historian
May 10: Valentin Zsifkovits , theologian and social ethicist
May 12: Hansjörg Eichmeyer , theologian
May 13: Willibald Katzinger , historian and museum director
May 20th: Niki Lauda , racing driver and entrepreneur
May 28th: Andre Asriel , composer
May 30th: Gerd Baron , mathematician

June

0June 4th: Albert Rohan , diplomat
0June 5th: Rosemarie Isopp , radio presenter ( driver on the road )
0June 8th: Herbert Batliner , lawyer, politician, trustee and art collector
June 12: Elfriede Ott , actress, singer and director
June 13: Peter Gerlich , political scientist
June 15: Wilhelm Holzbauer , architect
June 15: Karlheinz Miklin , jazz musician
June 15: Josef Rieder , ski racer and doctor
June 20: Peter Matić , castle actor
June 20: Gerald Messlender , soccer player
June 24th: Brigitte Swoboda , actress
June 24: Iván Eröd , composer and pianist
June 28: Elisabeth Jäger , journalist

July

announced on July 23: Peter Jablonka , archaeologist
July 10th: Hans Eibl , military musician, composer and conductor
July 12: Eberhard Kummer , lawyer, singer and hurdy-gurdy player
July 17th: Willy Dirtl , ballet dancer and choreographer
July 18: Johann Trummer , priest, organist, musicologist and media manager
July 25: Georg Hohenberg , diplomat
July 25: Curt Faudon , director
July 26th: Franz Pirchner , agricultural scientist and veterinarian
July 26th: Gerhard Weis , journalist and broadcasting manager, general director of ORF
July 27th: Axel Huber , local researcher and publicist
July 27: Frank Hartmann , media philosopher
July 27th: Johann Kresnik , dancer, choreographer and theater director
July 29th: Fritz Drazan , soccer player
July 30th: Max Wichtl , pharmacist

August

0August 2: Suzanne-Lucienne Rabinovici , Holocaust survivor
0August 4th: Andrea Fraunschiel , politician
0August 4th: Robert Colnago , painter, sculptor and printmaker
August 11th: Gerheid Widrich , doctor and politician
August 17th: Pepi Gramshammer , ski racer
August 18: Helmuth Froschauer , conductor and choir director
August 18th: Ulf Stahl , microbiologist and geneticist
August 20: Rudolf Hundstorfer , politician
August 23: Gretl Komposch , composer and choir director
August 23: Egon Zimmermann II , ski racer
August 25: Ferdinand Piëch , manager
August 29: Georg Kriz , politician

September

0September 2: Helmut Rauch , nuclear physicist
0September 3: Sven Boltenstern , goldsmith and sculptor
0September 3: Bernhard Raschauer , legal scholar
0September 6: Alexander Höller , actor
September 11th: Andreas Wimberger , actor and radio play speaker
September 16: Rudolf Gurtner , politician
September 19: Marko Feingold , Holocaust survivor
September 21: Dieter Knall , Bishop
September 24th: Herwig Zens , painter and art teacher
September 25: Paul Badura-Skoda , pianist, piano teacher, music writer and editor
September 27: Gerhard Hirschmann , politician